Search for pair-production of strongly-interacting particles decaying to pairs of jets in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV

Abstract

We present a search for the pair-production of a non-standard-model strongly-interacting particle that decays to a pair of quarks or gluons, leading to a final state with four hadronic jets. We consider both non-resonant production via an intermediate gluon as well as resonant production via a distinct non-standard-model intermediate strongly-interacting particle. We use data collected by the CDF experiment in proton-antiproton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.6 fb$^{-1}$. We find the data to be consistent with standard model predictions. We report limits on $\sigma(p\bar{p}\rightarrow$ {\it jjjj}$)$ as a function of the masses of the hypothetical intermediate particles. Upper limits on the production cross sections for non-standard-model particles in several resonant and non-resonant processes are also derived.